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Arrested development: relative school entry age and arrests during the teenage and young adult years

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A large literature documents that there are significant academic and non-academic differences between the youngest and oldest students in a school cohort. This paper investigates if being the youngest in a cohort has any impact on an individual's propensity to commit crime by utilizing a data set that contains over 4 million arrest records spanning a 20-year period in California. While I find no persistent effect on the probability of arrest, the youngest students in a cohort have a higher risk of arrest for certain offenses at age 14, corresponding to the age when they would transition to high school.

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  • Asha Shepard, 2024. "Arrested development: relative school entry age and arrests during the teenage and young adult years," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(3), pages 275-297, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:32:y:2024:i:3:p:275-297
    DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2023.2213865
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